Roy Pereira

Roy Pereira has over 17 years of operational experience in the security, networking equipment, and enterprise software industries. He has worked in Silicon Valley as well as in Canadian tech-centers of Ottawa and Toronto and has worked both in mid and large public companies (Cisco Systems [NASDAQ:CSCO], Certicom [TSX:CIC]), Bioscript [TSX:BYT]), as well as several startups (Merlin Systems, TimeStep, Snipe Networks).

For the last five years, he has led marketing departments as the VP of Marketing and Product Management. Throughout his marketing career, he has led many go-to-marketing, channel sales plans and startup funding rounds. He is also the author of several patents and IETF RFCs on network security from when he was an engineering architect.

His blog can be read at roypereira.com

Colin Smillie

Colin Smillie has extensive marketing experience gained at several leading Internet, web, wireless and security companies in Canada, the United States and Asia-Pacific.

In the past he worked with Trader Corporation, a Yellowpages Group company, as a Senior Brand Manager for their Real Estate and Employment verticals.  He was able to lead several cross-functionality initiatives including the new Urban Living magazine launch which was well received by both readers and advertisers in the Toronto downtown core.   He also worked as Product Manager for Trader Media Corporation on their Autotrader.ca site, one of the leading automotive sites in Canada. 

As Product Manager at Certicom he helped turn the failing movian security enterprise focused software line into a leading embedded security product that is available in a variety of Motorola, Research In Motion, Sony-Ericsson and PalmOS devices today.

His blog can be read at colin.smillie.ca